IIS with SQL 2008 R2 (local) running slow

I have a simple ASP web application connected with a 32 bit ODBC to an SQL 2008 R2 Database.
The pages load incredibly slow, this happened to me once and I had to reinstall the SQL engine to the 32 bit instead of the 64 bit.
Is there a way to avoid doing this and basically run it in 32 bit to speed it up ? It literally takes 20 seconds to load a page instead of half a second as it does on 32 bit versions of the SQL .. any ideas ?

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I am, it is my development computer. And I had it like this before I re-formatted my computer and it worked just fine.
But now I have win 8 and it won't let me install the 32 bit version of SQL, only the 64 bit and its giving me problems :#

Another thing is it takes a long time on the first few pages, over a minute each, then it speeds up and I can navigate through the system with no problem, if I stop for a minute or so and go back to navigating the pages it again takes over a minute to load the page :(

As it turns out if I install it using default instance (localhost) the issue above will happen. I reinstalled using this method a few times with the same results.
Then I installed using a NAMED instance, for example "SQL Express" and it works fine. Go figure !